Title page for the Centennial booklet prepared by Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (relocated from Cleveland to Parma, OH), in 1992. Scan from "100 years if God's Grace," a commemorative booklet produced by Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Parma, Ohio, in...

One page from the "Fifteenth Census of the United States/Population Schedule" (Department of Commerce) for Seminole County, FL, lists members of the families of Andrew Duda, Sr., Martin Stanko, Joseph Mikler, Michael Mikler, Paul Lukas and George...

One page from the "Fifteenth Census of the United States/Population Schedule" (Department of Commerce) for Seminole County, FL, lists members of the families of Andrew Duda, Sr., Martin Stanko, Joseph Mikler, Michael Mikler, Paul Lukas and George...

Representatives of Slovak families in Cleveland who will become investors in the Slavia Land Co, visit the Slovak settlement at Zellwood, FL on March 29, 1911. The Slovak Lutheran residents of this community were supportive of their brothers and...

Two men (George Breha, left and Charles Mc Culley, well driller, shaking hands with a gushing artesian well. Slavia, ca. 1915. Snapshot, scanned from Dinda Family Collection, Courtesy: Robert Dinda, at SLLS in 2001. Image appeared in Like A Mustard...

Image of The Articles of Incorporation for the Slavia Colony Company, filed on August 31, 1911 in Cleveland, Ohio. The stated purpose for forming the company is for: 'acquiring, purchasing, selling and trading in and for lands and real property in...

Men cool off at the pump next to the barn of a farm in Slavia, c. 1920s. Unidentifiable except for Joseph Mikler, Sr. at far right. Snapshot (Courtesy: Elizabeth Mikler Duda), scanned 2001 at SLLS for archival collection.

A dozen men sit on a bridge over a drainage canal, c. 1920. Most are unidentified, but Andrew Scerba is the 5th from left in group and Andrew Sobek is the third from right. Snapshot (courtesy, Gertrude Lukas) was scanned at SLLS in 2001. The image...

Lillian Jakubcin perches on railing of a bridge over the drainage canal in Slavia, c. early 1940s. The subject, interviewed in 2011, remembered this bridge as being at the current intersection of Mitchell Hammock Road and State Road 426. Small...

Michael Dinda, Sr. is shown standing in the celery field of the Dinda Farm in Slavia, c. 1920s. Snapshot (damaged corners), courtesy: Robert Dinda, was scanned at SLLS, 2001. Image appeared in Like a Mustard Seed: Like a Mustard Seed: The Slavia...

Little Olga Jakubcin (left) and brother, George, Jr. frolic in the flower garden at the Dinda homestead, c. 1920. A black and white dog (probably owned by the Dinda family) can be seen in the left lower corner and Olga appears to be holding a puppy...

Slavia children (13 in this photo), members of the Hruska, Mikler, Dinda, Duda and Ceman families, attended school in Oviedo. But their transportation, c. 1915, was by a horse-drawn covered wagon, which had to traverse the dirt road between Slavia...

Five men: representatives of potential Slavia Land Co. investors and local land agents pose in the wild, undeveloped land that was to become Slavia Colony. April 3, 1911. 4x6 sepia print (reverse side, handwritten: 'In Slavia apr.3-1911'). Scanned...

George Jakubcin, Sr. is shown riding a 3 wheeled contraption he invented to ride on the railroad tracks between Slavia and Winter Park. c.1925. He actually used this device to travel from Slavia to work in Winter Park, sometimes carrying his work...

Michael Dinda, Jr. drives truck loaded with crates of celery from the Dinda farm in Slavia. The truck was driven to the railroad depot in Oviedo for shipping to markets, possibly in Atlanta or Savannah. c.1920s. Snapshot (courtesy: Robert Dinda)...

A photo of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1906. This Slovak Lutheran congregation was formed in 1892 and it was here that the Slovak immigrants (who were to become the founders of Slavia and St. Luke's Church) worshiped together...

The interior of Holy Trinity Slovak Lutheran Church in Cleveland. Home church for the Slavia settlers before they emigrated to Florida in 1911-12. Scan from "100 years if God's Grace," a commemorative booklet produced by Holy Trinity Lutheran...